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Elizabeth R. Nugent is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University, specializing in authoritarian politics, political psychology, and Middle Eastern studies. She previously held positions at Yale University and Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center, and conducted Fulbright research in Cairo. Her work examines how repression and polarization shape democratic transitions, particularly in Egypt and Tunisia. Nugent earned a PhD in Politics from Princeton University and degrees in Arabic and Arab Studies from Georgetown University.
Her research focuses on authoritarian regimes' mechanisms of control, the psychological impacts of state repression, and religious influences on political behavior. Key contributions include After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition (Princeton University Press, 2020), which won the Robert A. Dahl Award and received multiple honorable mentions for its analysis of Tunisia and Egypt. Her work has been published in top journals like American Journal of Political Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Awards include the 2018 APSA Democracy and Autocracy Section Best Paper Award and 2022 Luebbert Book Award Honorable Mention. Her research combines fieldwork, experiments, and historical analysis to explore themes like political socialization, exile mobilization, and the electoral dynamics of Islamist parties.
Nugent’s grants and advising are not detailed in the text, but her work emphasizes collaboration with institutions like the Belfer Center and global fieldwork networks. She contributes to public discourse through podcasts like POMEPS and media outlets like Foreign Affairs.
